Land Rover achieves global sales record in 2005

Land Rover has achieved its best sales performance in its history last year, with 185,120 vehicles sold around the world, an increase of 14% on 2004.

In the UK, sales grew to 48,777 – 3% higher than the previous year.

Andy Griffiths, Land Rover's UK marketing director, said: "The sales growth has been driven by an exceptionally strong model line up. The Range Rover Sport, our fifth nameplate, experienced a great debut with 30,356 models sold worldwide in six months.”